I want to share a post that I worked on for the School of Living website. The post is about growing turmeric and ginger and is our first...

I’m sitting in front of the woodstove and the snow is falling. So goes spring! Yesterday, was windy but warm and sunny and the honeybees...

A scene that is both aesthetically theatrical and socially mundane…as it relates to a flock of chickens, of course. You can enlarge each...

That looks different. Let’s go check it out. J brought his infrared thermal imager to the scene and, as you would expect, there is a...

This morning. Barn door is open. 9 hens, 1 roo meander in. J goes in barn to work. Dog (Ginkgo) follows. Freaky hen flies in front of...

We’ve had a beautiful busy season and the bees have provided us with a bountiful supply of honey. Sweet! Our good friends, Jim and Sally,...

I was very pleased to see this green lacewing on the coneflowers while I was photographing honey bees. Lacewings are a beneficial insect...

Just a quick note on a new find. In the periphery of my attention, they looked like dead blossoms.  But, wait…that makes no sense. Big...

I started to study permaculture when I lived in Elkins Park, an inner suburb of Philadelphia. Permaculture was our gateway to gardens and...

Yes! This IS the beginning of our seed starting season! What a great activity to get into on a frigid near single digit day. With a...

We’ve had around 2′ of snow and, then, warmer weather. As the thaw continued, we had about 1.25″ of rain. Water is flowing. The swales in...

The thing I like best about weather events such as Saturday’s snowstorm is that neighbors tend to come out to the street to share a...

We thought that we’d like to have a visual screen between our farm and a neighboring property. My dog, Ginkgo, watches, diligently, over...

January 10, 2016 just before 5:00 p.m. It got up to 60 degrees F. today, some rain with strong wind. It will drop to ’round 24 degrees F....

NICE START TO A BLOG POST, HUH? I think it began with beetles in the orchard. This past summer, the new trees and shrubs that I planted...

A couple of days ago, I looked toward the bee yard. The honey bees were blasting to and from their hives…just as they should have...

Take a gander at all the fluffy marshmallows hanging in our tree. Have you ever seen such a healthy crop of marshmallows? No, of course...

I believe our last frost date is April 24 pm- April 25 am, 2015 (wishful thinking?). I hope I won’t need to update this brief post with a...

I first saw and tasted jujube while walking the orchards of Edible Landscaping in Virginia. It was in the fall and the fruits were sweet,...

This post is in memory of a stellar chicken and our farm’s namesake, StellaLou. It is, also, to celebrate a magnificent creature…that is,...